Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process and apparatus for installing a payload onto a subsea structure
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Application No.: US16686996Application Date: 2019-11-18
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Publication No.: US11028663B1Publication Date: 2021-06-08
- Inventor: Patrick Michael Cargol, Jr. , Brett Morry , Weili Guo
- Applicant: TRENDSETTER ENGINEERING, INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: TRENDSETTER ENGINEERING, INC.
- Current Assignee: TRENDSETTER ENGINEERING, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Egbert Law Offices, PLLC
- Main IPC: E21B33/038
- IPC: E21B33/038 ; E21B33/037 ; E21B41/04 ; E21B33/064

Abstract:
A process for installing the payload onto a subsea structure has the steps of affixing an adapter spool on to the subsea structure, deploying a plurality of winches in spaced relation to the subsea structure, connecting an end of a plurality of slings received on the plurality of sheaves to a plurality of winches, connecting an opposite end of the plurality of slings to the payload, lowering the payload in a direction toward the subsea structure, actuating the plurality of winches so as to draw the payload downwardly into a position on the subsea structure, and locking the payload onto the subsea structure. The adapter spool has a collar with a plurality of sheaves extending outwardly therefrom. The payload can be a capping stack and the subsea structure can be a blowout preventer.
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